A game Dominion players(and modders) might enjoy

[Omnirizon]

something about charging groups of bandits, trampling them with my horse, or galloping by and smashing their heads with a warhammer. Taking them prisoner and selling them into slavery...

Just doesn't get old.

And the horse archery is top notch. The feeling when you stick that arrow in the guy while your both charging, and he falls of his horse and gets dragged along a bit.

I don't know what kind of changes they've made since you quit, but there is plenty to do for me. The environment is active, you can see towns being raided by one nation, jump in and help out or try and defend (if you dare attack 100+ man raiding parties.)

Strategy surely isn't what the game is all about, but you do have strategical effect on the environment with your actions; and I think some Mods put a little more focus on taking part in strategical movements.

[Omnirizon]

Dwarf Fortress...

Brings back memories of playing urogue at my buddy's dad's computer when I was just a pup, or nethack even; but with an ASCII simcity aspect... and more.

I'll have to check it out.

[Omnirizon]

Ah!!!

Tarn Adams made DF.
I used to play Liberal Crime Squad, also by Adams.

[Dedas]

He he, Dwarf Fortress is the most awesome game on the net in my opinion. Somehow it reaches out and touches the very core of my gaming soul in a way that not many games have done before. X-Com 1&2 and Civ1&2 comes to mind. So in my opinion it is truly "beyond quality".
The weird thing is that it is totally free and still only in early Alpha!

[Agrajag]

When I read the description in the first post I thought "I don't think he means DF, but DF sure fits this description.", and I was thinking about mentioning the awesome DF. But then I see everyone else thought similarly
So yeah, DF is awesome. Probably an important reason why I'm going to fail my next exam

[Endoperez]

Dwarf Fortress is awesome. By the way, I've been modding the language files to edit how the words are used. I couldn't do anything about verbs, which are still used in crazy ways, but I've changed the other words so that you're more likely to get "Yellowboat" or "Crystalaxes" than "Syrupsbluenesses" or "Authordiamond". Also, I limited most stupid words out; added adjective-like words to verbs such as flying, swimming, rising; limited nouns to just singular or plural when fitting (blueness instead of bluenesses), limited availability of words in names (no bluenessessyrups the bad grammar, no antwhite, etc; bluesyrup and whiteants can still happen).
I'm on page 115 of 192 and I think I'll add a bucketload of new words after that, but I can bump this thread when I finish it if anyone's interested.

[LDiCesare]

Dwarf Fortress takes getting into it too I suppose. I havent managed to in any case. I have lots of difficulty getting anyhting done in that game. Or, in fact, just getting started.